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Review: A Tiger's Tale (Arrowtown #1) by Lisa Oliver

Seth
Carmichael never did anything wrong, but instead of working at the
local library, he was running for his life. His herd was hunting him and
with few resources, Seth's options were fading fast. Until, that is, he
heard the rumble of a motorcycle. Peeking through the tree he was
hiding in, he couldn't believe his eyes. Had salvation come in the form
of a badass biker?

Ra (no last name and proud of it) was a tiger
on a mission. He'd scented his mate and then the little rabbit ran away
before his teeth could engage. Ra heard the gossip around Arrowtown; he
knew his mate was a hunted man. But if the sweet man was on the run, he
needed someone to look after him; Ra figured he was the right man for
the job.

A meeting, a mating and yet another meeting. What
should have been a straight forward relationship turned into so much
more on their very first outing as a mated couple. Now Ra has to count
on the strength of his mate and the help of his friends, if he and Seth
are ever to have the HEA they'd planned for. And what was with all these
Fae turning up out of the blue?

Warning: Contains a tiger who
keeps putting his foot in it; a tiny lop-eared rabbit who is stronger
than he looks and a bunch of friends who’ll hide a body, no questions
asked.

Now this is my type of
brain candy!A classic tale of predator
meets prey but, instead of eating him, falls in love.*sigh*It just speaks to my romantically
perverted heart. This has almost everything
you need for a successful shifter-fluff-with-mpreg story.There’s the overprotective Alpha male and his
diminutive mate.There’s claiming and
growling and biting and insta-love and hot sex and antics and shenanigans and
secrets all mixed into an over-the-top storyline.There’s lions and tigers and bears, oh
my!Sadly, there was no KNOTTING.Coulda done with some KNOTTING. I was able to
look past that oversight because, dude!There’s a bunny shifter in this book!An adorable, itty bitty white lop-eared bunny!And he mates with a tiger!A big, strong, growly tiger!There was no way I was passing this one up.

At
the start of the story, Seth, the aforementioned adorable itty bitty white
lop-eared bunny, has been on the run from his herd for two weeks for reasons
unknown. His mate, a tiger shifter named
Ra, finally catches up to him and lures him out of hiding with his magical peen
and a picnic basket full of salad.They’ve
both known they were mates for a few months now but Seth, in true bunny
fashion, fled with a startled “eep!” when they first ran into each other.He was scared, y’all!Ra came on a bit too strong and he’s just an
itty bitty thing, he couldn’t help but run away and hide.But what bunny could resist a salad?Not to mention tiger peen. *waggles eyebrows*

So,
Seth moves in with Ra and his biker gang/motorcycle club/whatever.The alpha of his herd is not happy about this
turn of events at all.Cue the shenanigans.

This
story was so ridiculous and over-the-top I couldn’t help but love it.It had the standard ‘surprise! You can get
pregnant!’ trope, the ‘you’re not who you think you are’ trope, the ‘Luke, I am
your father’ trope plus a fair amount of ‘lack of communication’ and HUGE Big
Misunderstanding. And I devoured it all
with my big ole Suspend Your Disbelief spoon. Seth was just freaking adorable and,
surprisingly, Ra had a goofy side that was endearing as all get out.Ra’s biker buddies/gang/whatever were great
too and I hope we get their stories in the books to come.

To
be honest, I hesitated to read this one.I had tried to read one of the author’s earlier works a while back but I
ended up bailing on it because of a severe lack of editing.This one, I’m happy to say, has much less
editing issues.There were still a few
errors (misuse of homophones, incorrect use of a turn of phrase, etc.) but, I
was able to get past (<- see? this is
the correct usage of a homophone) them due to the amount of charm this book
exudes.

Plus, how can you go wrong with this:

He’d
been thinking about it a lot though and his favorite idea was a tiny rabbit
with tiger stripes.

On
the brain candy scale, I would say this is like a variety bag.It’s got a little bit of everything to
satisfy your sweet tooth, all wrapped up in individual fun-sized packaging.Enjoyable as a treat every now and then but
eat too many in a row and you wind up with a stomachache and a couple of
cavities.

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